Mandatory Hair Testing in Preemployment being pushed-coming soon?

Plus dark hair is more likely to catch cocaine particles than light hair. Guess which group of people that adversely affects? Something as simple as handling a dollar bill then touching one's hair has shown to cause false positives.

 

Especially if the dollar bill was rolled up and used to snort a line or two.

 

Maybe a dumb question, but what other industries have such strict drug testing and background check policies?

To get the Hazmat endorsement there's a few disqualifiers, down to domestic abuse etc. Same for TWIC I believe.

Random drug testing - makes sense . . . point is - we're viewed as degenerates by the general population, yet if we have endorsements and hoops to jump through, most truckers have to be pretty much model citizens. Just to drive a dumb truck.

Airline pilots? Train conductors? Politicians (Ok forget that last one )

 

Some companies in Alberta require drug testing for tradesmen….usually for huge projects at tar sands or refineries. The rest of Canada not so anal.

 

What the big companies who use hair tests are reporting is that pot is not the problem. It's opiates, methamphetamine and cocaine. The question isn't about the tired question of pot. It's about what to do about users of hard drugs who can test clean on a UA two days after using. I think it's a reasonable question.

 

Don’t forget that most government employees are also tested, except the ones that write the laws of course..

 

Here is a paper written by the Duke University Pharmacology Education Partnership on the topic.
Module 2: Drug Testing: A Hair-Brained Idea! – PEP

The jury is still out on whether there is an inherent bias against POC in this drug testing regimen.
But if there any "reasonable doubt", I don't think it has a chance in this very politicized world.

 

Caffeine and nicotine are drugs also.
And while we are at it your cholesterol is high. No more cheese burger for you.